I Didn't Enter the Strat Poll--Should I Have?

[Boogie Bill]

A few of my 19 G&Ls:



Left to right:
That's a Transparent Blond ash Legacy, 3-bolt neck, Duncan Texas Hot Antiquity Pickups with the RW/RP middle and Power Bridge.
Then, a Butterscotch Blond ash Legacy Special, 4-bolt, ebony board, Gotoh Dual Blade Pickups. (Amazing tinted birdseye maple neck!)
Finally, a Fullerton Red alder Legacy, cream plastics, neck tint with 4-bolt, G&L CLF100 Pickups (similar to SSL-2s.)





Here's a Tobacco Sunburst Comanche with the quirky Leo Fender Designed Z-Coils on the left, with a cream guard and tinted neck. The Z-Coils are powerful humbuckers. The ash body has a really tight grain, due to the cut.
And one of my first G&Ls, a 3-bolt S-500, 3CSB, also in ash with the hot MFD single coils. The JB, Jr. in the bridge is now gone and the guitar is back to stock--it just couldn't keep up with the MFD's.





On the left is my first G&L, circa 1992. This one is considered a rarebird Legacy, because it was built with an older DF Vibrato plate with the serial number on it, rather than on the neck plate. Duncan SSL-2s. The guitar next to it is the first guitar I ever bought of E-bay. It's a little older than the other one, but was used hard, and shipped to me just filthy dirty. Case still reeks of cigarette smoke after 14 years. Super slim neck that is really fast. I swapped in a set of the GOTOH Dual Blade pickups used on the Legacy Special model. Stock, it also came with the SSL-2s. Both alder, with rosewood necks in 3CSB--Leo's updated version of the quintessential early 60's Strat.

Enjoy!

Bill

 

[SlyFoxx]

Re: I Didn't Enter the Strat Poll--Should I Have?

Lovely guitars and technically "Fenders" ...but not Strats.

 

[Nostalgic Distortion]

Re: I Didn't Enter the Strat Poll--Should I Have?

I'm kinda regretting not entering my 1994 40th anniversary '54 Re-Issue.

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I've got it loaded with Duncan Antiquity's & a Madason's Jeff Beck style harness. The harness is built from cloth pushback wire, oil can capacitors, 3 matched CTS 300K pots, a Oak Grisby 5 way selector switch, all on top of an aluminum grounding plate just like a actual '54 Strat. I've got prettier Stratocasters & I've got more expensive Stratocasters but this one is my baby! There's nothing really special about the color or materials of this guitar but it is by far, the best one I've ever owned!!!

First off, it's routed for 3 singles, so no wired acoustic resonance under the guard like most newer models that are cut to accommodate humbuckers? I love the fact that Fender currently gives us this option, I've got several Strat's with humbuckers in them? It just personally, I feel like I can hear the difference between a classic routed Strat and a swimming pool/modern route?

The action on this thing makes Shred Sticks go home crying & the tone from it is just unbelievable!!! The 300K pots liven up the Antiquity's just a touch, perfect for Texas Antiquity's because they can be a bit on the darker side. The guitar is almost 25 years old now so it's got a very nice natural yellowing, light relic thing going on & oddly enough there's almost zero fret wear! The fingerboard is a little dirty & stained which makes it look amazing and it's got a very nice chunky D profile neck on it. I was a bit put off by the neck when I first bought the guitar but I have since come to love everything about it! Actually, I kinda wish the rest of my Strat's had the same profile!

Some other great features are, a custom made brass tremolo block, a set of pre-CBS tuners, (they were free, anyone who drops $600 on old tuners is a bit nuts IMHO) & bone nut cut & installed by the late, great, Greg Garnet, whom it was a great honor to have known...

(He was an amazing local luthier who's original creations have sold for upwards of $20,000)

 

[Silence Kid]

Re: I Didn't Enter the Strat Poll--Should I Have?

I'm in part trying to "convert" to G&L; need to wait for a good deal, but I anticipate the next guitar I buy to either be a brand new Z3 or an old, first body style Invader. Such well built guitars, then and now.